The loose organization of people dedicated to helping escaped slaves get to free territory was given the name “The Underground Railroad”. The organization had no official membership, and even though the networks existed and there have been documents about it, the term is generally used to relate anyone who help escaped slaves.
In the year 1914, the U.S. congress passed the Harrison act. This act taxed and regulated the importation, distribution, and production of cocaine and opiates. This Harrison Act or also known as the Harrison Narcotics Tax Act was a federal law in the United States which was proposed by the representative of New York, Francis Burton Harrison and this act was approved on the 17th of December, 1914.
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14th amendment gave us equal protection of the law
The Northern states probably banished slavery before the South did because they had no real good use for them. Most of the labor in the North before the Industrial Revolution was things like ship making and fishing. They didn't have real work for the slaves that was very hard like in the South. The South has plantations and those were hard to deal because they had a lot of things to do at once and also because it was a very physically demanding labor. They needed certain people who they didn't need to pay and were seen as less to do them. That is probably why.
